Beschreibung
This book attempts to give a convincing philosophical
explanation for the strong persistence of our diverse folk
psychological intuitions about the self. For this purpose it
introduces, on the one hand, the distinction between subject
and self model as proposed by Metzinger, on the other hand,
the distinction between a social/normative and a
cognitive/organic perspective on the self. The book argues
that one needs to take into account both distinctions, if
one wants to answer notoriously difficult questions like the
one that gives the book its title: Is the self real?
